With the Aarey Milk Colony proposed as an eco-sensitive zone by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), the collector's office does not want more slums to mushroom in the green belt. For his, a survey of ‘eligible slum-dwellers’ has been initiated, and for the first time, biometric data will be collected from legal residents. Those eligible will be rehabilitated, while others will have their homes demolished. It is hoped that this will help save the last surviving green lungs of Mumbai.

A survey will be conducted and the biometrics of tribal residents like this family will be recorded